Curse

|pyro| · Nov 13, 2006, 05:47 PM // 17:47

First of all I want to say this build is not my idea I got the general build from this post:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...52&postcount=1
from:
Narutoscryed

I was thinking about his build and saw that Shield of Absorption negates damage and its accumulating, you take -5 from first hit, -10 from next -15 from next and so on until it expires. Because you have Protective Spirit on so you dont take more than 5/13 damage. Everything ok for solo farming.

I was wondering how does 600hp monk and Shield of Absorption work togheter. While testing I saw that it starts by high damage 60+ per hit and slowly negating it to 0 damage per hit until expires. Because there was a need for healing I tested it with Spirit Bond. Spirit Bond provided me with healing for the first few hits when damage was still high. After this I was again invincible.

It seems that Protective Spirit works first and makes you take 10% of you maximum heath per hit, and Spirit Bond heales you 80+ each hit when you take damage, Shield of Absorption comes in and negates damage given to you by -5 per every hit. When Spirit Bond dies off after 10 hits you have only Shield of Absorption on you but you will be taking 0 damage until it ends.

Build

I have 15AL armor with health bonus, Vitae Runes and Major Vigor rune.
Because the key to this build is to have the longest lasting Shield of Absorption as possible I did this.
First I putted a +4 Divine Favor Scalp on and I casted Blessed Aura on me for 37% longer enchancments.(16 Divine Favor, Protection Prayers 12)

Then I switched to +4 Proteciton Prayers Scalp for 7 seconds long Shield of Absorption and keeped it on me.(12 Divine Favor, 16 Protection Prayers)
So now I have 511 hp and in the end +200 hp from Vital Blessing.

So I tried the ye old Smiter + Bonder(Shield Bodner now).
I had basicly the same build except I have put Shield of Absorption in.

I had:

1-Protective Spirit
2-Shield of Absorption
3-Spirit Bond
4-Spell Breaker{E}
5-Blessed Signet
6-Essence Bond
7-Blessed Aura
8-Balthazar's Spirit

My smiter had:

1-Vital Blessing
2-Life Attunment
3-Rettribution
4-Holy Wrath
5-Shield of Judgment (if Coldfires are aggroed)
6-Blessed Signet
8-Rebirth

Conclusion:
I cleared Chamber and Ice Wastes several times with this build and it works perfect.
The only is how much can you aggro and still be effective, because the bigger group you aggro the longer it takes to kill them(melee mobs scatter), but you can aggro 4 groups of smites and live to see the day.

I would say the big advantage of this build is that that is faster than Famine/55hp build or Trapper Builds. Not as fast as the pre - AI change but still its proffitable.

moko · Nov 13, 2006, 08:23 PM // 20:23

you posted it in the farming section; whats the point of it here? -.- also Smiter with SS is probably nicer.., not sure after the "nerf", but it would break aggro as much as soj would i guess..so meh. free spot would be Bane Signet...

osk · Nov 14, 2006, 02:07 PM // 14:07

I had this build in my mind, when i tested Narutoscryed's build on
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...52&postcount=1

but nvr had the chance to try it cos too busy with work recently.
kudos for testing n it's nice to see it works.

I would however, have the smiter bring Balthazar Spirit, while the monk(tank) take Vital blessing coz you have 16 prot.
so the smiter can use other profession's signet ??

B4 the melee scatter nerf, I found out tht signet of judgment is better in a way tht
1) you don't need to w8 for smiter to regen n cast.
2) hence blessed signet can be taken out
not sure if it still feasible now...
would suggest: put in signets that remove condition, heal (not need but still good to have), or smite signets.

and If it works as good as pre-nerf spirit bond, this duo build can farm FoW too....limited to Tower of Courage & Great Battlefield, maybe spider cave if you manage to sneak through skales....
original build: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10043363
be creative!

|pyro| · Nov 14, 2006, 02:32 PM // 14:32

I figured that monk tank can be Mo/N and use recless haste for even faster killing.